Prose Writing Contests

Share Your Driving Stories and Earn Cash!

Share Your Driving Stories and Earn Cash! Safe2Drive is seeking true stories about your experiences as a new or young driver to be published in our driver education course and textbook. We want to hear from teens about what it’s really like out there on the road. What experiences challenged you? Changed you? Scared you straight? Made you proud of your defensive driving skills? Below are some of the topics you may choose to write about, though...

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Last call for prose, translations, hybrid work and visual art submissions at Duende!

We are open for submissions until November 30, 2014 for prose, translations, hybrid work and visual art. (The deadline for poetry submissions was November 15, 2014.) Duende welcomes submissions of prose, hybrid writing, and visual art. We are especially interested in collaborations between two or more writers, or between writers and visual artists. We accept submissions from writers working in English, or translating into English, from anywhere...

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The 2nd Annual Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award

CLICK HERE to see this year’s winner. Submissions open: June 1, 2014 – February 28, 2015 Prize: $500 + Publication no later than early 2016 by Vine Leaves Press + 20 copies Guest Judge: Sara Sargent Sara Sargent is an Editor at Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She acquires young adult fiction. Most recently she was an Associate Editor at Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books. Sara started her...

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Stage of Life Writing Contest

Deadline: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 Entry Fees: $0. No entry fees. Prizes In addition to a SWAG package, Stage of Life’s educational literacy sponsors Papa John’s, IHOP, Applebee’s, and SpaWeek donate gift cards to the winning teen and adult essay writers each month. Description What’s your story? Educational literacy initiative, StageofLife.com, hosts an international writing contest every month centered around a specific...

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NBF Annual Legal Writing Contest

Deadline: Saturday, November 15, 2014 Entry Fees: None, Free to Enter Prizes The winner will be awarded with $1,500 to be applied towards law school or college tuition. The winning submission will also be published to the National Bankruptcy Forum website. Description The contest is for law school or college students. To participate in the contest, students will have to submit an essay arguing how best to solve America’s student loan problem....

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Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine 6th Annual Dialogue Only Writing Contest

Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2014 Entry Fees $10 for unlimited entries (only one entry allowed at a time; see Response/Notification section for more details). Entry fee is due at time of submission and will be collected through Submittable. Prizes Prizes: A minimum of $500 will be awarded, with at least $300 going to the grand prize winner. Our five finalists will also appear in Issue 13 of the magazine due out in January 2015. Last year we...

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